Quotes About Creativity

Dudes I work with have to be like-minded to where I just hand them a beat that has a chorus and they can do with them what they gotta do. If they can't do that, I usually don't work with 'em.

The world's a better place since I chose music.

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.

I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.

Because I had the children, I chose to have my studio in my home. I wanted them to understand my work and learn how to work.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

I chose when I was 30 to change my life entirely and become a director and sit in the dark and that's what I love doing.

I chose music and that's what I do.

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.

If you're really chosen for music, it just comes to you and you just let it pass through. That's how I create.

When you have the chance to work with Wes Anderson, with Stephen Frears and Chris Weitz and Roman Polanski and Terrance Malick you don't say no.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist.

I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Fashion Week is like Christmas.

I write songs all the time. Sometimes they're just weird songs I sing while changing a baby, or songs about annoying things that I sing to myself, or to friends while sitting at a bar, or about Christmas or New York.

I love Maje, Rick Owens, Helmut Lang, Christopher Kane, Felder + Felder, and Sam Edelman shoes.

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.

I would love to work with Christopher Nolan, 100 percent.

I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.

Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.

I want to be part of great cinema. That is my only aim.